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Epi 1.0.7 now out

2 messages · BXC (Bendix Carstensen), Peter Dalgaard

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BXC (Bendix Carstensen)
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Dear R-sig-Epi list,

We have now made a major update of the Epi package, to version 1.0.7.
It has just appeared on CRAN.

For a few days the version 1.0.5 was there, but there were grave bugs
in splitLexis and cutLexis, so please update to 1.0.7 if you have the
1.0.5. ( Use: installed.packages()["Epi","Version"] to check ).

The biggest change since the previous version 0.7.0 on CRAN is the
introduction of a new machinery for representation of follow-up data
through the Lexis() function that creates a Lexis object. It enables
simultaneous representation of follow-up on different timescales and
also representation of multistate data, i.e. transitions between
several different states (not only alive -> dead). Time-splitting of
follow-up data is done with the functions splitLexis(), cutLexis() and
countLexis(). Overview of multistate data is given by tab.Lexis().

Included in the package is a vignette explaining this machinery in
detail --- start the html-help (write help.start() at the command
prompt) and at the front page for the Epi package, click on a link in
"Read overview or browse directory".

Note that the old Lexis()-function (by David Clayton) is dead. It is
still in the package, but now under the name W.Lexis(). Its
functionality, splitting follow-up time, is taken over by
splitLexis().

The function epi.eff() is replaced by effx() and effx.match().

Enjoy!

Best wishes,
Bendix Carstensen,
maintainer of Epi
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Bendix Carstensen
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Peter Dalgaard
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BXC (Bendix Carstensen) wrote:
W.Lexis? I take it that this implies that it is now as dead as William
Lexis, and as GF Parrot, Primo Rectori Universitatis Dorpatensis?

It's not pinin'! It's passed on! This function is no more! It has ceased
to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of
life,  it  rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it'd be
pushing up the daisies! Its metabolic processes are now 'istory! It's
off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off 'is mortal coil,
run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS
AN EX-FUNCTION!!



Ahem.

Sorry, couldn't help it....